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Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

Last post 08-12-2008, 1:17 AM by baskar.govindaraju. 4 replies.
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  •  03-09-2008, 11:07 PM 29369

    Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

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    When you create a new site collection, Central Administration creates a top level site and offers you the standard set of templates for that top level site.

    If you want to add a custom template to the list of templates offered by Central Administration, simply:

    • Create a custom template (.stp)
    • From the command prompt, use STSADM -O ADDTEMPLATE:
      stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename filename -title "friendly name" -description "description"

    Type stsadm -help addtemplate for details.

    Then restart IIS by typing iisreset.

    Dan Holme
    Office & SharePoint Pro Community Leader
    MVP (Windows Server - Directory Services)

  •  04-01-2008, 5:17 AM 29478 in reply to 29369

    Re: Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

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    I have created a custom template and deployed it on the central admin.It is being shown under the custom tab and I am able to create sites using it also. but when I sent the same template to be deployed on the production environment, it got deployed from the command prompt. Operation successful and iisreset done. But when trying to create a new site using the template, it is throwing an error saying ::  "The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found".

    what could be the possible problem?

  •  07-11-2008, 5:20 AM 29838 in reply to 29478

    Re: Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

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    I'M ALSO FACING THE SAME ISSUE, CAN ANYBODY HELP ME TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE...

     

    THANKS IN ADVANCE

    ALTHAF HUSSAIN K

  •  08-07-2008, 6:16 AM 29940 in reply to 29838

    Re: Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

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    Hi Dan,

        I have problem with templates.

    My problem is i have to create a site template which I'm successfully able to do but the site to which i must create a template also contains 8 subsites which are not getting included  in the template when restored to new site.

     I'm using sharepoint 2003.My sharepoint site structre is Site A(GlobalInfo) which has many subsites(eg.. India, USA, Japan...) Each country pages have 8 subsites each.So i have to create a template for one country(including its subsites) and use that to create another country pages(including it subsites)

    How can i solve this ..really got struck here and its very urgent I dont need to add this to central administration..

    Please kindly help me in this regard .

     

    Thanks,

    Sudha 
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  •  08-12-2008, 1:17 AM 29964 in reply to 29478

    Re: Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

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    I'm also facing the same issue... did you found any soln? if so pls let me know...
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